The UK Home Secretary seeks appeal over Qatada deportation ban
Theresa May will try to overturn a court decision that bans Abu Qatada from being deported in the latest battle of the decade-long saga. The Home Secretary has asked the […]
The Muslims’ Contribution towards Integration
Source: Times of Malta By Laiq Ahmed Atif The Muslims living in Malta have a religious duty to love Malta and remain loyal to it Love is a powerful weapon that […]
Petty criminals chose prison over €5 fine
Source: The Local Fare-dodgers, illegal parkers, shoplifters – petty criminals are regularly choosing to go to prison for a few days instead of paying small fines. Now one regional authority is planning more creative punishments to save state money. More:
Teens better with money
Source: The Local. More than half of German 15 to 20-year-olds save regularly and almost all of those who took out a loan in 2012 paid it back without a hitch, a study released on Tuesday revealed. More:
Boston Bombing is not the Real Face of Abrahamic Faiths or Islam- We at The Muslim Times Condemn this Barbaric Act and Plead for Patience.
Written for The Muslims Times: by Abdul Alim: Our hearts are full of sadness on account of what has happened in Boston yesterday. Humanity is being killed in different parts […]
Report: French rail firm banned Muslims from working during Peres visit
Ynet News France’s national railway company banned its black and North African employees from working during President Shimon Peres’ visit last month over fears they “might be Muslim,” newspapers in […]
The Second Cooing: Raising Passenger Pigeons from the Dead
Source: Spiegel Philip Bethge/ DER SPIEGEL The world has been without passenger pigeons since 1914. Now, scientists want to bring them back. Geneticist Ben Novak has embarked on the project and has begun collecting passenger pigeon DNA from natural history museums. His “de-extinction” efforts are not without critics. More:
UK: Rendition report still unpublished nine months after completion
by Ian Cobain The Guardian Although government promised as much as possible would be made public, no date has yet been fixed for publication. An official report into Britain’s involvement […]
Germans are losing patience with being cast as the euro zone’s scapegoats
Source: The Economist: HITLER moustaches and swastikas defiling pictures of Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, have become a recurring motif in the iconography of the euro crisis, most recently in Cyprus. Scapegoating is inevitable during financial upheavals, says Marcel Fratzscher, president of DIW Berlin, a think-tank. Germany, he suggests, has […]
Picture of the Day-Tombs
Rock-cut tombs in Myra, An ancient town in Lycia, Turkey.
Scientific Truth of Revelation in the Quran- Bucaillism: An Irrefutable evidence against Atheism
Collected by Abdul Alim:The Mummy, The Holy Qur’an and a French Surgeon Maurice Bucaille Maurice Bucaille Author of The Bible, Qur’an and Science From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: […]
Black workers ‘banned from Gare du Nord during Israeli president visit’ (New version of Liberty, Brotherhood and Equality?) (Liberté, Fraternité, Egalité – the French State Motto)
Black and North African railway workers were banned from working at Paris’s Gare du Nord when the President of Israel visited France over fears they might be Muslim, it has […]
Richard Dawkins’ anti-Islam/anti-Muslim propaganda exposed: The facts
Source: Loonwatch By Jai Singh There is currently increasing journalistic scrutiny of the atheist British scientist Richard Dawkins and his ally Sam Harris’ statements about Islam and Muslims. In December 2012, […]
BBC documentary ‘ Science and Islam: 3 parts
Really cool series. . . BBC documentary – Science and Islam: The Language of Science (part 1) ————————————————————— BBC documentary – Science and Islam: The Empire of Reason (part 2) ——————————————————————- BBC documentary – Science and Islam: The Power of Doubt (part 3)
The Hangman’s Tale: Archaeologists Dig into History of Execution
For years, few were interested in unearthing what lay beneath old gallows and scaffolds. But, in Germany, growing interest in “execution site archaeology” is throwing much light on how the […]
Pope Francis tasks cardinals with studying reform of Catholic Church
Source: CNN Rome (CNN)— Pope Francis has appointed a group of eight cardinals from around the world to look into ways of reforming the Catholic Church, the Vatican said Saturday. The group, which includes U.S. Cardinal Sean O’Malley from Boston, will examine ways to revise the Vatican constitution, Pastor Bonus, […]
Religious Rights: German Court Upholds Muslim Headscarf Ban in Schools
Der Speigel: A court has ruled that a ban on Muslim teachers wearing headscarves in schools was legal. It said that teachers who covered their heads violated their obligations to […]
New immigrants are younger, more skilled
Source: The Local. Germany is able to attract immigrants who are both younger and better qualified than the majority of its own citizens, a report released on Friday by the German Foundation for Integration and Migration, showed. More:
Muslim History Should Be Included In School Syllabus, Urge Campaigners Curriculum For Cohesion
Huff Post UK: Faith campaigners have called on the government to include more Muslim history in the national curriculum, as a way of engaging young Muslim pupils, and educating non-Muslims […]
Inviting Professor Dawkins to Read the Qur’an to Salvage his Reputation as a Scientist
Editors note: “Haven’t read Koran so couldn’t quote chapter and verse like I can for Bible. But [I] often say Islam [is the] greatest force for evil today.” Dawkins While […]